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Friday, 30 September 2011

So I found this great new online shop a few weeks ago. Corazon Latino. I was looking for a special piece of jewellery for a friends birthday and stumbled upon these in a search engine. They do mostly stirling silver items but they have a really different but classic look to them. You will have seen me wearing a piece the gifted me from their 'Chiming Pendants' collection on my trip to London.

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Hello Ladies I am here today to announce the South Wales Bloggers Meet!! Yay!! I have been talking about it for a few weeks now on Twitter but we have launched the sign up for tickets today (it's free!!) And they are disappearing like hotcakes so if you want to attend you better be quick. You can sign up here.

But I suppose you want to know a bit about the event first. Yes? Well me and Gemma of Fat Frocks are hosting it but the event is being sponsored by at held at St David's

The meet up will be on the 12th October in Cardiff.

The general plan is to meet up in the afternoon around 3pm to go for a coffee and have a good chat. We can then hit the shops in Cardiff, taking a look at the unique arcades and the new St David's centre.At around 6pm we will head to the management suite in St David's for some drinks and a preview of what St David's has on offer for the festive period. There will be gift bags, opportunity to get your photo taken and more time to chat with all the lovely bloggers who attend the event.

Plus after todays meeting with Gemma and the St David's PR team we have also confirmed you will be able to get a mini make over from the Kamigata team and there will be the chance to have some food after the event.

If you are unable to attend the day time (or night time) no worries you can just come to one or the other. Plus we are happy for other bloggers from outside South Wales to attend to, the more the merrier!

Monday, 26 September 2011

When me and Jon were at home last week my mum made this great Beef stew. I'm not sure which recipe book she got the recipe from but it was a Parker's Beef Stew and it was yummy. So I thought I would share the recipe she used.

1. Place beef, garlic. bay leaves and red wine in a covered bowl. Chill overnight or for a minimum of 4 hours.2. After that brown bacon in olive oil in frying pan. When browned place in a large casserole.3. In a bowl mix flour and a little salt and pepper. Take steak out of bowl and cover in flour mix until well coated. Discard bay leaves.4. In frying pan add a little more oil and fry the steak in batches until golden (but not completely cooked) then add to casserole.5. Pre-heat oven to 160 (or equivalent). Fry onions, carrots and potatoes in oil for around 10 minutes on a medium heat stirring well, place in casserole6. Add the wine mixture (from bowl), beef stock, tomatoes and rosemary to frying pan (scraping any segments from the bottom into the juice, to add to the taste) Bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for 3-4mins.7. Pour over the casserole and mix. Cook in oven for 2 hours, stir once or twice during cooking.8. When cooked mix 2 ladles of juice from casserole with 2tbsp of flour then mix back in to stew. Add peas and cook for a further 5mins. Add s&p to taste and serve.

What do you think of my new necklace? I was gifted it by Corazon Latino a great jewellery site which stocks beautiful and unusual jewellery. This is a chiming pendant which gives off a very faint chiming noise, it is beautiful. Or I can remove the bell and the necklace looks completely different.

This is my place to post all the fun, cute, beautiful, hot and swoonful stuff I find online. Swing by and see what I found today, I post very brief daily post so it would be a great thing to peek at first thing in the morning or last thing at night.

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Hope you don;t mind me bombarding you with self promotion stuff but I just wanted to get the new blogs out there as we have been working on them a while and would love some new readers/followers

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Well I thought I could get in on this months Everybody Everywear challenge as I have missed a few recently. This months challenge was possibly one of the biggest trends from this season, coloured trousers (or pants to you American's)! Luckily I already have a pair of colour pants that I bought a few years back while I was in Canada so it was nice and easy.